Winter School: Series Fiction for Children

A fun and practical workshop on writing series fiction for children aged 6–12 years.

Discover what it takes to hook your young reader in, keep them turning the pages and make them fall in love with your characters across more than one book. Find out how to write with authenticity by remembering who you were as a child, and make sure you target the right age group for the story you want to tell.

You will learn

how to engage with your child reader

what is your natural writing voice

what publishers are looking for

series fiction versus standalone fiction

what to expect when you sign a contract.

About Sally Rippin

Sally Rippin has over sixty books published, many of them award-winning, including the best-selling 'Billie B Brown' series, which has sold more than three million copies since first published. In 2017, she launched a new imprint with Bonnier Publishing called Sally Rippin Presents. This year, Sally released the second book in a new series called 'Polly and Buster - The Mystery of the Magic Stones'.

Applications for the 2020 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship open 9am 1 October.
Now in its ninth year, the Fellowship commemorates the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) and awards $15,000 to an emerging or established Australian writer to support research and development of a new...